Days after a fireball rattled Mississippi houses and was spotted in nearby states, NASA has confirmed fragments of the meteorite have been found in the Magnolia State. The fireball was spotted aroun… [+2009 chars]
They give OLED TV screens their color and protect rubber from being eaten away by oxygen. They’re a key molecular building block for everything from pharmaceuticals to fertilizers and herbicides. Thi… [+3035 chars]
Researchers, led by experts at Imperial College London, have developed a new method that allows gene expression to be precisely altered by supplying and removing electrons. This could help control b… [+5269 chars]
Do you remember Halley's Comet? The last time this famous object was visible was in 1986, 36 years ago. You younger readers might have little or no memory of this famous cosmic vagabond (It takes r… [+6887 chars]
NASA explains that before the ISS, the first U.S. space station, Skylab, demonstrated that humans could live in space for up to a year. Skylab became a space outpost from 1973 to 1974. During those y… [+1482 chars]
Astronomers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — with assistance from Canadian researchers — have announced a new neutron star, or pulsar, has been discovered 3,000 light years away from Ea… [+1807 chars]
A new video from NASA shows what it looks like when a star is caught in the powerful gravity of a black hole. In these binary systems, the doomed stars spin around the black holes, which steadily suc… [+1034 chars]
<li>Ladd, T. D. et al. Quantum computers. Nature464, 4553 (2010). ADS CAS PubMed Google Scholar </li><li>Popkin, G. Quest for qubits. Science354, 10901093 (2016). ADS MathSciNet CAS… [+10407 chars]
Paleontologist Robert DePalma works on a fossil in a laboratory in North Dakota, USA.BBC And it is not at all in Mexico that he directed this research, but well 3,000 kilometers away, in the United … [+1277 chars]
Montage showing the sequence of a total lunar eclipse, also called a "Blood Moon" getty When is the next eclipse? During the evening of Sunday, May 15 and into the early hours of Monday, May 16, 20… [+3916 chars]
Looks like fun! Space Ride Charming footage from from the interior of the International Space Station shows what happens to the astronauts inside when the ship fires its thrusters. Thats cool on i… [+1504 chars]
Artist impression of a Mars settlement with cutaway view. Credit: NASA Ames Research Center In the coming decade, NASA and China plan to send the first crewed missions to Mars. This will consist of … [+8013 chars]
